Hoodoo wrote :
>
>"Dave Fossett" <reply@via.newsgroup> wrote in message
>news:AG2be.86$Ch5.69@news1.dion.ne.jp...
>> "Hoodoo" <tobyandmaz@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Can anyone explain the difference between 'kawaii ne' and 'kawaii ne
te?'
>>> A Japanese friend said the second phrase and said that she couldn't
>>> translate it.
>>
>> "Te" just means "hand". Are you sure it wasn't "tte"? That would mean
>> "What do you mean 'cute'?".
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dave Fossett
>> Saitama, Japan
>
>Hi Dave
>Thanks for the reply.My friend said it about my  baby daughter (who she
>thinks is very cute) and when I asked her what 'tte' meant she got a bit
>embarrased and said she didn't realize she'd said it and couldn't explain
it
>in English.
>>
>
>

That would be a dialect in some Northern part of Japan, not a question
element as Dave is saying.
What is she origially from?



Gr$(D????(Be, Martin